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65. Afro, kill me now!

Even in the dim light, one could see that Grace's fair face had her long eyebrows furrowed in a frown.

Is there anything strange?

"what happened?"

Afro said, following the girl's gaze.

Nothing.

Click-click-click, the sound of some kind of connecting rod moving was heard in the corridor, echoing long in the corridor in the silence.

The two of them confirmed one piece of information in their anxious gaze - there was something unusual!

Grace held her breath, took out the sharp dagger from her waist, and stood in front of Afro calmly.

The holy flame magic that is powerful enough to burn and purify filth will blast the knocker into pieces the moment he appears.

This body was in too poor a condition, and after having given Afro a grand fireworks display, the limit it could withstand was two more uses.

Be sure to be careful.

With a loud crash, the world before my eyes began to shatter and crack like a mirror.

A crazy dark grey mist began to surge, ruthlessly engulfing everything in sight, and the world turned into a chaotic nothingness.

The bright moon in the sky cast a striking and strange light, and the rays of light seemed like sharp daggers that cut through the chaos, penetrating the mist to reveal a glimmer of escaping red light.

Even though she knew that this was a different world with magic, this was the first time Grace saw something beyond her cognition.

Her pupils dilated incredulously as she stared at everything bizarre before her in shock.

"Grace!! This is an illusion!"

A holy and soft voice shouted anxiously, her arm was pinched softly and forcefully, and then her whole body was pulled to Afro's side.

"Illusion?"

Grace's brows were furrowed, and her red pupils sank slightly.

After Nora Francis escaped, Grace specifically looked up the triggering conditions of illusions. Generally speaking, magic props, eye contact, or magic circles can trigger illusions.

The world constructed with magic as the source is called an illusion, and the damage in the illusion will be fed back to reality with the same feeling.

In other words, people can die in the illusion if their brains are pierced through on the spot.

Someone is casting an illusion, which means that someone is staring at me in a dark corner like a shadowy rat... Who could it be?

But there was no time for Grace to think.

Bang! All the fragments of the world fell down in mid-air, and the surrounding environment changed drastically.

Mirror.

There are mirrors everywhere around me.

A circular corridor formed by countless mirrors.

Grace took a quick look and saw that the space she was in seemed to be a cylindrical building with five floors in total.

The hollow in the middle is supported by a crystal stone pillar, on which are coiled spiral staircases. The staircases extend outward from the crystal stone pillar and connect to the mirror corridors on each floor.

The overall structure is somewhat similar to a circular shopping mall in the city.

The door that symbolizes the exit turned into a long and narrow wooden staircase.

Looking down from the crystal guardrail, the sky and the earth seemed to be turned upside down, and what supported the entire building at the bottom was actually the deep night sky with scattered stars.

Click, click, click, the sound of the mechanical linkage turning rang out again.

At the entrance of the stairs, there suddenly appeared a mechanical puppet made of wood and steel.

The cold steel doll glowed with a dangerous luster.

Its upper body is a humanoid puppet that can move freely, its left arm is a sharp steel knife, and its right arm is an ordinary puppet arm.

The lower body is made of steel legs similar to spider legs, and when it walks it looks strangely like a floating crab.

The doll has two clear glass beads placed on the front and back to replace eyes, and an inconspicuous blue gem is set in the center of the forehead.

Grace, who has been in modern society for a long time, has not yet realized that there are extraordinary beings in the magical world. She is only at the stage of understanding the magic and magical creations of the other world.

The puppet's glass eyeballs emitted a terrifying red light, as if locking onto an intruder.

Grace's red pupils suddenly contracted, alarm bells rang in her mind, and her instinctive sense of crisis reminded her that the person coming was not friendly!

"boom!"

The Holy Flame Technique blasted towards the puppet without hesitation.

A white light flashed, and Grace's attack was easily blocked by something like a protective shield.

The ordinary puppet's arm suddenly stretched out dozens of meters and attacked Grace like a swift whip.

There was a whistling sound as if something was being whipped on the waist like this, all of a person's internal organs would surely be shattered.

"Grace!"

Afro quickly pulled Grace, and at the same time a strange blue light burst out from her hands to resist the puppet's attack.

Resistance is ineffective.

As her body was being pulled, the sharp fist from the puppet's arm brushed against Grace's cheek.

The arm smashed onto the ground with a loud bang, creating a terrifyingly large hole. The shattered lens shattered and fell from the hole to the next level.

The puppet really wanted to kill her! Grace's eyes widened in shock.

The feeling of death approached me again, and my heart was pounding violently.

"Grace, run!"

Afro pulled Grace, who had not yet recovered from her shock, and began to run rapidly towards the other side of the Corridor of Mirrors.

The frail body was breathing rapidly, the chest was aching, and the legs were sore and weak from running beyond their limits.

From time to time, there was still the sound of breaking behind me.

Grace ran for her life like never before.

But now I don't understand the current situation at all. Why did I suddenly fall into a fantasy? Was it an assassination? Or was it Victoria's trick?

She could only hold Afro's hand tightly and run back and forth in the mirror corridor.

Fortunately, the puppet only looks scary, and its running and attack speed as a steel man is not fast.

I ran from the second floor to the fourth floor in one breath, and most of my energy was consumed.

"Hahaha……"

Grace sat on the ground, panting heavily and exhausted. Her face was pale and bloodless after the intense exercise. Her back and the weight of her whole body were leaning on the crystal fence.

Both of them are weak girls.

Afro's condition wasn't much better. She leaned on Grace's shoulder and tried to calm herself down.

After her breathing became smooth, she slowly uttered the first sentence:

"The puppet will come again. Even though it runs slowly, it won't get tired. When we are exhausted, it will kill us effortlessly."

Yes, this is the key issue at the moment.

Grace raised her head, pinched her trembling, sore calves, and said, "My Holy Flame Technique is ineffective against it. I have no means to counter it..."

Afro lowered his brows and shook his head.

"Neither do I... I learned magic related to purification and healing in the church. I just tried to fire a magic bullet at it, but it seemed to have a protective shield and it didn't work."

"If it has no weaknesses, how can we escape from the illusion? I lost my memory before and don't know this."

The current situation is not optimistic. The clicking sound of machinery can still be heard in the quiet air.

One knock after another echoed, like the gentle knock on the door of death.

"If the opponent doesn't cancel it, generally speaking, the first method is to shatter the opponent's illusion core, and the second method is..."

Afro glanced at Grace, then lowered his eyes, feeling a little depressed.

"Pierce the heart of the first person who falls into the illusion to cut off the illusion. But this method is too risky, and it is basically a life-or-death situation. It is better to use method three, find the magical connection of the illusion and escape."

Grace remembered that she had read in "Introduction to the Basics of Magic" that everyone has five magic lines, and the intersection of the lines is at the human heart.

As long as the heart is pierced, it will be considered as cutting off the connection with the world, which is also equivalent to breaking the illusion.

Afro looked at Grace's thoughtful expression, and suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up slightly.

"The core of the illusion should be the gem on the puppet's head. If we break it, we should be able to escape..."

But Grace quickly rejected Afro's idea, and her brows were tightly knitted together as if a huge mountain was pressing down on her.

"But... we have no possibility of getting close to it now."

Grace believed that there was nothing in this world that was invincible, and she stared straight at the mirror opposite her.

The person in the mirror looked pale and weak, with red pupils as dim as a ghostly lamp.

If anyone with magic can crush me like an ant, can I really take revenge by stepping on those people so easily?

Magic... is also an existence that cannot be ignored. I was just too arrogant.

"… Let's try to find a magical connection first, and at the same time observe if it has any weaknesses."

Grace said calmly, rubbing her sore, thin calves and standing up.

Then she reached out her hand towards Afro and pulled the girl up.

At this time, Grace's strong adrenaline secretion left her no time to consider whether to contact Aphrodite, nor did she have time to think about who set up the illusion.

The mechanical sound in my ears is getting closer and closer, and the threat of death is always around.

Grace looked back, her expression serious, "It's coming, there's no time now."

Now the only goal is to survive.

Perhaps it was because the puppet was too clumsy and caught up too slowly, so the tense feeling of life and death was weakened a lot.

I ran a whole circle from the third floor to the fourth floor, but still couldn't find the magical connection to the illusion.

Grace couldn't help but ask while fleeing, "What exactly is the magical connection of the illusion like?"

"It's probably the eye of the six-pointed star magic array that emits blue light. It's usually hidden in a very secret place."

The wind from running blew across her cheeks, and her legs were sore from the long period of numb running that Grace almost thought she had lost consciousness.

Looking at the two people running hand in hand in the mirror, my mood was a little subtle at this critical moment of life and death.

"Aphrodite, do you think it could be hiding behind a mirror?"

"possible."

She thought about it and nodded, then frowned uneasily, "But there are so many mirrors here! If it is hidden behind a mirror, how can I find it?"

"Try to break one side first."

Grace stopped and raised her foot slightly.

With a clear crash, the mirror shattered, and then another brand new mirror appeared behind the mirror.

The layers upon layers are nested, as if there is no end.

But it was this sound that exposed the girls' location like an indicator.

Boom! It was the sound of wood being broken.

The loud noise made Afro's body tremble slightly.

Then she saw an extended arm puppet directly penetrate the floor and go diagonally towards Her Royal Highness the Princess.

"Grace!"

Afro's pupils widened in disbelief and she reached out to stop it, but it was too late.

The arm hit the girl's calf directly, and even after being cushioned by the floor, it still knocked the thin body away for a long distance.

Dong, there is the sound of flesh falling to the ground.